Post #2535866
2023-10-25 16:51 UTC
Replies (15)
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@jonbro@friend.camp 2023-10-25 17:01
@andybaio@xoxo.zone whoa, pizza.net was real?!?
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@RyunoKi@layer8.space 2023-10-25 17:08
@andybaio@xoxo.zone There is a Flash emulator written in Rust that transforms SWF into WASM. In case you have contact to the webmaster.
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@xris@ecoevo.social 2023-10-25 18:42
@andybaio@xoxo.zone I wrote my first program 50 years ago, before the first artifact in the museum. I guess I qualify as an artifact, now?! I remember well the (Robert Tappan) Morris Worm, 1988-11-02. The museum's description omits what I felt at the time was important context: RTM's father was Robert Morris, then chief scientist of the NSA's National Computer Security Center! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Morris_(cryptographer)#National_Security_Agency #History #ComputerHistory #ComputerSecurity
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@tezoatlipoca@mas.to 2023-10-25 18:58
@andybaio@xoxo.zone - zombo.com :greenstar: - Homestarrunner.com :greenstar: Ok this site is legit. I'd argue that the Really Big Button That Doesn't Do Anything is an omission, but its moved around a lot. https://www.krystalrose.com/rosewood/library/BigButton.htm
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@ChadHillPhotos@mastodon.art 2023-10-26 04:33
@andybaio@xoxo.zone I am not at all comfortable with homestarrunner being in a museum of old things. Especially given the frequency with which it is still quoted in my house.
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@fathermojo@mastodon.social 2023-10-26 13:58
@andybaio@xoxo.zone
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@rdp@notpickard.com 2023-10-26 21:53
@andybaio@xoxo.zone that's neat! i'm sure everyone has their own thing they wish was also included. I wish sunsite.unc.edu was in there. getting cc binaries to be able to build gcc was like step 1 of a new box :)
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@ang6666@mastodon.social 2023-10-27 00:09
@andybaio@xoxo.zone No Compuserve or ICQ or 2 girls.
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@shoq@mastodon.social 2023-10-27 00:14
@andybaio@xoxo.zone Thanks for this Andy. It’s my favorite new thing.
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@brianstorms@mastodon.social 2023-10-27 00:29
@andybaio@xoxo.zone Missing so many things, and numerous cases of non-firsts, which is par for the course since "Internet" is the filter. Which means there's no PLATO, no chat rooms (Talkomatic, long before IRC), instant messaging (TERM-talk, long before AOL Instant Messenger), message forums (PLATO Notes, 7-8 years before USENET), PLATO emoticons (years before Internet emoticons). No mention of COCONET's emoticons which were essentially the first Emoji, in 1987, 11 years before Japan. Et cetera.
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@harry_wood@en.osm.town 2023-10-27 01:14
@andybaio@xoxo.zone I was pretty amazed by this factoid about the "wouldn't steal a car" ads: "It was also later found out that, ironically, the ad’s music was used without the creator’s permission." ...although actually, maybe this is not true https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Wouldn%27t_Steal_a_Car
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@celesteh@lgbt.io 2023-10-27 13:51
@andybaio@xoxo.zone I was invited to participate in the IPO of askjeeves, but when I read their business plan, it seemed unscalable, so I declined. Because I had not yet realised that I was in a bubble/pyramid scheme and thought that the viability of products and companies mattered. Anyway, it shot up to hundreds of dollars over night, obviously …
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@Liquidream@mastodon.gamedev.place 2023-10-27 19:03
@andybaio@xoxo.zone This was a beautiful trip down memory lane 😊 This online museum... belongs in a museum! 🤓
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@bgrinter@mastodon.sdf.org 2023-10-31 21:30
@andybaio@xoxo.zone @Tender@mastodon.social be sure to download and listen to an mp3 from the Napster page
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@heidiS@mstdn.social 2023-11-01 08:25
@andybaio@xoxo.zone pure magic 🌈 Thank you for this wonderful trip down memory lane. Just remembered all the nights I spent trying to help Jerome to investigate the strange things happening in Mortville Manor! If I remember right it’s was the first game using speech synthesis.